We transform meaningful materials and personal reflections into handcrafted glass keepsakes. From weddings and graduations to remembrance, birthdays, and life's transitions, we help preserve the people, moments, and meanings that already matter.
Weddings, new babies, graduations, anniversaries, and new homes are preserved in handcrafted glass you can hold forever.
Memorial pieces for people and pets. Cremated remains, funeral flowers, or a lock of hair are transformed into beautiful keepsakes you can carry with you always.
Every piece is handcrafted with the sentimental materials you provide. The making of your order is filmed from start to finish and shared with you.
Whether you're preserving a memory or celebrating a milestone, the process is the same.
Choose a style of keepsake to hold the memory of this moment.
Reflect on what matters & complete the guide at your pace.
Once received, the creation of your order will be filmed and shared with you.
Within 4 weeks of your kit's arrival at our studio, your finished keepsake will be shipped.
The same beautiful handcrafted glass, tailored to the moment that matters most. Choose your category below.
A small amount of cremains, carefully melted into the glass.
Flowers from a service, a garden, or a meaningful moment.
A small lock of hair, preserved within the glass forever.
A goodbye letter, obituary, program, or photograph.
Please take a moment to read this. It helps your sentimental materials arrive safely and ensures we can use them in your finished piece.
Only a small amount of material is needed to create your keepsake.
Flowers and plant materials must be completely dry before shipping.
To permanently infuse sentimental materials into glass, with rare exception, materials must first be transformed into ash. For this reason, we accept:
Some customers choose to personally transform meaningful materials into ash as part of the reflection process. Others prefer to send materials for us to prepare. Both are welcome.
Because self-created ashes are not regulated cremation remains, they may be mailed using the standard return kit included.
Human and pet cremation ashes require special USPS mailing and are not covered by the standard return postage included in your kit.
This guideline exists to ensure an added level of care and tracking for precious cargo during transit. This is not our policy; this is a USPS policy that we comply with.
We film the creation of every order from start to finish.
When your piece is finished, we'll send you a private YouTube link to view it. The video is uploaded as unlisted, meaning only people with the link can watch it. It's not searchable, not public, and shared only with you.
All pieces are crafted from the highest quality U.S. made borosilicate glass. You'll select your color on your order form.
Gentle, transparent pastels in normal light. Under a UV light, they glow as electric, endlessly bright beacons. Hover to see the glow.
A glass version of the beloved gemstone featuring your chosen sentimental material as a design element. Produced from the highest quality U.S. made borosilicate glass.
Available for Suncatchers. Frit is crushed glass. Molten clear glass is pressed into it to create a speckled effect.
Ordering is simple. Place your order online or by phone, and we'll ship a Keepsake Kit directly to you. Inside, you'll find everything needed to reflect on what matters, select meaningful materials or written reflections to preserve, and safely return them to our studio. Standard shipping is included in the cost of your kit.* Once your materials arrive, your keepsake will be handcrafted in glass and shipped back to you with care.
*Cremated remains, human and animal, cannot be shipped with standard shipping. Please see the section dedicated to this topic.
Yes. Every keepsake is individually handcrafted by a trained glass artist, and the creation of your piece is filmed from start to finish. Once complete, we'll send you a link to watch the transformation of the materials and meaning you entrusted to us.
On your order form, you'll choose how your video is shared on YouTube:
Public: Anyone can search for and view your video on YouTube.
Listed: Your video is not searchable but may appear on our YouTube channel and can be viewed by anyone with access to the channel or direct link.
Unlisted: Your video is private and not searchable. Only people with the direct link can view it.
You'll also choose how your video is identified:
• First & Last Name from your order
• Order ID Number for additional privacy
We believe transparency matters. Watching your keepsake come to life offers a rare opportunity to witness the care, craftsmanship, and intention behind something deeply personal.
Once your order arrives at our studio, please allow up to 4 weeks before your keepsake(s) will ship.
Only a small amount is needed. Each kit includes a wooden spoon. Using this spoon, measure one level spoonful of: ashes, sand, soil, powdered flowers, or similar materials. Pour your sentimental material into the included plastic ziplock bag, which should be returned to the sentimental material envelope. Hair or fur: a small clipping is sufficient. Paper/Photo/Ticket Stub/etc: one item/sheet, no larger than 8.5x11."
To be permanently infused into glass, most organic materials must first be transformed into ash. Borosilicate Glass is worked at temperatures above 2,000°F, far hotter than flowers, hair, paper, fabric, and other organic materials can survive.
We accept human and pet cremation ashes, as well as ashes created from meaningful materials by you. Some customers find it healing to transform materials into ash themselves as part of their reflection; others prefer to send materials for us to prepare. Both are welcome.
Human and pet cremation ashes require special USPS mailing and are not covered by the standard return postage included with your kit. This additional handling and tracking is required by USPS for cremated remains in transit and is a policy we are required to follow.
Ashes created by you from other meaningful materials, as well as non-regulated sentimental materials, may be returned using the standard shipping materials included in your kit.
Payment is made at the time your order is placed. We accept all payment methods supported by Shopify, including major credit and debit cards, Shop Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, and other payment options available at checkout.
Always With Me Glass began with loss.
Our founder, Linda Harman, fell in love with glass as a young girl and began working with a torch at fifteen. Her father bought her first torch just as his health began to decline, and for years she balanced learning her craft with helping care for him through high school and beyond.
At nineteen, encouraged by her father, Linda traveled to a historic glass school in Southern Germany to deepen her training. But at twenty, she made the difficult decision to return home to care for him in his final months. He passed away shortly after.
The opportunities she had left behind in Germany were gone. But her love for glass never left her.
In time, Linda created her first memorial glass piece using her father's cremains. The peace she felt from carrying a physical reminder of someone she loved revealed something unexpected: grief changes shape, but connection endures. That small act of preservation brought comfort in a way words could not.
What began as a deeply personal response to loss slowly became a way to help others navigate their own grief. Always With Me Glass was born from the belief that meaningful materials, a flower, a handwritten note, cremains, a lock of hair, a treasured fabric, could become vessels for remembrance and healing.
But over time, something else became clear.
The same truth that mattered in grief mattered in celebration, too.
The flowers from a wedding bouquet. A handwritten promise. A graduation reflection. A message to a future self. A reminder carried into a new chapter. The moments that shape us are not only the ones we mourn. They are also the ones we celebrate, commit to, grow through, and carry forward.
Today, Always With Me Glass helps people preserve life's meaningful moments through handcrafted glass keepsakes created from sentimental materials and personal reflections.
We begin from a simple belief:
Meaning comes first.
In a world filled with disposable personalization and objects asking us to invent significance after purchase, we choose the opposite direction.
What matters already matters.
Our role is simply to help give it form.
Begin with meaning. Give it form. Preserve it forever.
A small team of artists and craftspeople, each bringing years of specialized experience to every order.
Founder, lampworker since the age of 15, creator of every memorial piece that carries the studio's name.
Multidisciplinary glass artist and instructor bringing a wide range of techniques to the studio.
Jewelry designer and metalsmith, hand-finishing each metal piece that leaves the studio.